Attack on titan Fanfiction – I do not own any of the characters. But the story is mine..
The sun had almost fully set and the city was quiet save the pattering of the few stray raindrops that fell around them. In the dusky red glow, Eren stared as his captain's body swayed, his eyelids fluttering as he lost his composure and collapsed.
"They are.." he whispered.. "They show intelligen.." he said before he passed out.
"CAPTAIN!" an alarmed Eren rushed ahead to aid his superior, "Captain Levi! What's wrong?"
Levi's breathing was labored, his mouth open, as his lungs tried to suck in the much needed oxygen from the air around. "Captain," Eren said again, as he reached out to the still body of Levi and shook him gently, his own leg revolting against any movement he made. Eren turned his captain's body to lay him on his back. The wind picked up as a stray draft washed over the two disturbing the dust and ruffling their clothes. A storm was on its way.
Eren's hands moved quickly as he began peeling off his superior's shirt. It was like someone had put the man through a shredder. His otherwise clean clothes were completely soiled, dried blood clung to the fabric around the numerous rips on it. He worked the thin shirt off the man and started ripping the fabric to make strips. He could not help but wonder what must have happened for Levi to look like this? His captain, the strongest of them all was pretty much bathed in blood. They show intelligen… Eren's eyes widened as the whisper that had left Levi's lips finally registered.
"Eren!" Connie landed behind him, stumbling slightly through exhaustion, "Where were you ma…" his body went rigid at the scene before him.
"What the hell happened here?" Mikasa's alarmed voice broke in.
"Help me out.." Eren said without letting his focus off what he was doing.
"Give me that," Connie snatched the shirt, "Can't do anything right can you," he said inspecting the terrible job Eren had done, "you need to get that leg wrap.." he cut his sentence when he saw that Mikasa had already gotten down to the job, using her own red scarf to stop the bleeding.
Connie bent over Levi and started working the make shift bandages around the more serious wounds that had refused to stop bleeding. Once Mikasa was done tending to Eren's she turned to assist Connie.
"They show intelligence,"
"What?" Connie looked up just for a moment,
"They show intelligence, it's what Levi said before he passed out. What happened out there guys? They show intelligence as in like the hybrids?"
"No, I would not say like the Hybrids, but they definitely knew what was going on, they kept dodging our attacks, some of them even worked as a team, our casualties were just.. too many.."
"But you guys defeated them right?"
"Hardly, they just up and left, after killing almost half of ours,"
"and.. they weren't eating any of us.." Mikasa's quiet voice poked in "it was like they were here meagerly to slaughter us."
Levi stirred, and groaned as Connie lifted his waist slightly to tie a knot and finish off. "We could never have kept up with their assault if it was not for him though," he looked down at his captain, admiration and respect filling him, "he was the quickest to adapt to the situation, I think too many of the soldiers owe their lives to him and Erwin after today."
The rain was coming down at a steady pace now, "It's going to be a stormy night," Connie said placing his right hand over his eyes to shelter them from the water, he was looking at the clouds above, "we'd better get behind the wall, both of you need a doctor." He looked down and pulled his hood over his head, "I'll go look for some rope."
Dead silence fell as the night grew colder with the rain. Mikasa removed her cape and placed it under Levi's head as she pulled it hood over his eyes to shield his face from the oncoming rain. What's talking Connie so long? The boy had rarely lost sight of what he had to do. She turned to look at Eren, her expression softening.
"does it hurt?"
"Yeah, but it's not too deep so it should not have a problem healing."
"Hmm.. Connie sure is taking long."
"Well fin-"
"Shh.. listen.." Mikasa held her hand over his mouth.
Through the steady hum of the rain, they could hear the very familiar swishing sound, both of them knew what it was, there was no doubt there, but this sound was kind of broken. Someone was using the ODM gear without enough gas. The sound grew closer and it finally swished past them. Whoever it was had taken notice of the three and turned mid swing towards them. They came to a tumbling stop as the gear gave out,
"Aah,"
It was Armin looking completely distressed. He scrambled to his feet and rushed to Levi's unconscious form completely ignoring the other two.
"Armin!" Mikasa got to her feet, "The hell are you doing?" he moved to stop her friend who was almost dragging Levi across the roof, "Hey! She held him by his shoulders and shook him." It was as if he woke up from a daze and finally took notice of Mikasa. "You should not be doing that, he is in bad shape Armin," she watched as he looked down, his eyes widened as though he had just now noticed the condition of his captain. His legs buckled beneath him.
Mikasa sat down next to him and lifted his chin, "what's happening Armin?" she inquired looking straight into his eyes. Eren limped closer to them.
"I have a very bad feeling about this Mikasa, we have to get him out of sight!" Armin was visibly shaken up about something, they all knew that the boy had a nervousness issue, but they all also knew that Armin was the one who held up till the very end. His mind building flawless strategies and plans at the spur of the moment. Whatever had put him in a daze had to be serious.
"you need to calm down Armin," Eren crouched next to him gritting his teeth, and rested his hand on his shoulder, "you have a bad feeling about what? Where were you planning to take the captain?"
Armin's eyes darted between both his childhood companions as he tried to put his thoughts into words, "they are looking.. for him," he said, looking down at Levi whose head was currently cradled in his lap. "we need to get him out of here.. and quickly"
"Not before you tell us what's up" Mikasa said afraid for the boy's sanity.
"They think he did it!"
"What?"
"They think he and all the scouts did it?"
"Did what, Armin!"
"They found Erwin's body a while back." A third voice broke in, she bent down and brushed Levi's wet hair out of his eyes, he is running a fever "Armin is right, we need to get him out of sight" her voice was unnaturally calm.
"Wha… wait a minute! Erwin's body?! The commander is dea-d?" Eren at Hange, the looked at Armin, maybe he would say no. Maybe they were just pulling a pran-
"They think we killed the commander?" Mikasa's voice wavered but was still steady.
"No, they think he killed the commander," she gestured to Levi.
"But that's insane!" Eren stared, his desperate eyes searching Hanje's face for any form of a logical explanation.
Hanje's eyes broke away from Eren's gaze and fell to the floor, "they have already rounded up most of the Special Operations Squad, I have told the ones I could find to go into hiding."
"They must be diving through all our stuff right about now at headquarters," Armin finally found his voice, though it was tiny, his eyes were a lot more focused than before which meant his brain had gone back to normal and he was beginning to cook up plans again, "where are we going to go squad leader?"
"Well, for starters," she pulled the unconscious captain over her back, "off the streets." She gestured to Mikasa's cape on the ground, "rip that up and tie it around our waists, and another one around his wrists in front of me," the three of them got to the job.
"Let's first get off the roof, we are burning beacons of light out here."
They all pulled out their gears, Mikasa was in the middle of carrying Eren on her back when a dozen or so soldiers emerged from the darkness around them., their shotguns pointing straight at the small group. They must have not used their ODM gear in order to make silent movements.
"Squad leader Hanje," a booming voice reverberated through the falling rain, "I'd suggest you hand the captain over," commander Pixis moved closer to the group.
"Commander Pixis, please! He has don-"
"Eren," Hange cut in, her voice rising for the first time, "shut up!"
"You know as well as I that Levi is incapable of what has happened commander," she said, her eyes burning into the commander of the Garrison regiment, "so I suggest that you back off."
"Hand him over or we will use force"
"You were the one who found the Commander, have you considered the possibility that you killed him? Maybe you need to cut off on the alcohol," the tension in the air went up a few notches at Hange's direct accusation of their commander. The guns rattles in the soldiers' hands as they firmed their grips on them.
Pixis raised a hand to calm his troops, "Alcohol actually makes my senses sharper, Squad leader. Hand Levi over and I'll drop the charges against the Special Operations Squad," Hange's grip on her captain only tightened.
"We are not ones to sell out our own commander, you have come to the wrong bunch of people if you are looking for a barga-"
"It's alright Hange," Levi opened his eyes but just barely, "put me down."
"But Levi, you can't.."
"Put me down Hange," his voice was frail, but still commanding. Hange nodded to the three around her who got to undoing the bonds and helped their Captain to the ground. He stood by Hange and placed his hand on her shoulder, half to reassure her and half to steady himself.
His tired but steadfast eyes looked at Pixis, "what's got you're your panties in a twist Commander? You want me to come clean your house for you?"
"Now that would be a good thing if you had not put me in such a spot, Levi."
"So, if I come with you to your little nest, you say you will drop the charges against my squad?"
"Is what I said."
"You'd better keep your word, roses, because they have nothing to do with this," he glanced to the side, "whatever it is."
Pixis gestures his troops to lower their weapons as Levi began walking towards them. "So you are going to bind my hands or what, you kinky old pervert?" he said, not letting his confusion seep through his gaze. Someone came forward with a set of handcuffs and fastened them around the captain's wrists.
"Commander Pixis, please you can't do this," Eren's voice burst out from behind him.
"Can it you little shit."
Silence fell, Levi walked away from the four, the Special Operations Squad, his squad.
So that's it, R&R people… much needed motivation